Martin Landau dead at 89

He was an Oscar-winning actor in Ed Wood and Mission Impossible.
- byMichael Zennie

17 Jul
2017

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Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau has died at age 89 after a brief illness, according to multiple reports.

The versatile Hollywood star, who won an Academy Award in 1994 for the Time Burton-directed Ed Wood, came to fame as playing a villain in Alfred Hitchcock’sNorth by Northwest and in the original Mission Impossible TV show on CBS.

TMZ reports that he died Saturday afternoon at UCLA Medical Center following a short illness.